YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892). Imamuraskai. (Sold)
Artist:
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
Subject:
Imamuraskai, a prostitute of the Kimpei Daikoku house.
Series:
Kinsei jimbutsushi (Personalities of Recent Times). Yamato shinbun supplement no. 139.
Signature:
Yoshitoshi and artist seal Taiso
Date:
29th March Meiji 20 (1887)
Publisher:
Yamato shinbun
Block-cutter:
Enkatsu
Size:
Oban tate-e, 25,7x24,2 cm
Medium:
Woodblock print.
Literature:
Roger Keyes. Courage and Silence: A Study of the Life and Color Woodblock Prints of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi: 1839-1892. Ann Arbor, 1983, no. 488.
Conditions:
Very good impression and color, the usual trimming on the right margin, good conditions.
Item no:
C 997
Status:
Sold